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Parties get in election zone Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au
Splash of colour: Chelsea Rotary Art Show judge Malcolm Webster with Janis Taber’s winning artwork. Picture: Gary Sissons
Colourful creation wins art gong on a colour palette but the painting evolves as I go. “As I’m doing something the name often comes to me. I don’t have a name beforehand. It’s a feeling. “I thought there were tropical colours [in her winning entry] and it had a tropical feel, so the name Tropicana was appropriate.” The fashionista, who enjoys working on her art at her Moorooduc hobby farm, said she also hand paints silk scarves, decorates vases and paints on ceramic tiles and tables following colour palettes chosen by clients on a commission basis. This year’s Chelsea Rotary Art Show exhibited more than 450 entries from talented artists.
A MOOROODUC artist won a top award at this year’s Chelsea Rotary Art Show, taking out first place in the oils/acrylic category. Janis Barbieri’s Tropicana was deemed best in show in its category by judges at the 43rd annual Chelsea Rotary Art Show held at Chelsea Hall on 9-11 June. Barbieri, who signs her maiden name Janis Taber on her artworks, said it is the first arts award she has won since taking up inks and oils six years ago after working in the fashion industry. She said her art is “creative botanical and inspired by nature”. “I love combinations of colour so with something like that I’ll decide
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All proceeds from the show are donated to community organisations including the CFA. “Over the three days, the art show was very successful, with both sales and attendance numbers up on last year,” entry secretary Lesley Pitcher said. Ms Pitcher said 34 Indigenous paintings from Kakadu were included in the show and proceeds from their sale will go towards eradicating the trachoma eye disease in Indigenous communities. See janistaber.wixsite.com online for Janis Taber artworks and chelseaartshow.com.au for a list of all winners and some other entries. Neil Walker
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ELECTIONEERING ahead of November’s state election has gone up a level with a Liberal Party pledge to limit residential development across Melbourne’s suburbs. Opposition leader Matthew Guy has promised to bring back a twodwelling limit on lots in Neighbourhood Residential Zone areas, stopping multi-developments allowed if a “garden area” of 25 per cent is in place. The state opposition has also vowed to reduce the height limit in General Residential Zone areas back to nine metres, down from its present 11 metres limit. State planning spokesman David Davis said Andrews government “changes to our planning laws are now choking Melbourne’s suburbs with unplanned overdevelopment”. “Labor’s plan to allow high-density development on all parts of Melbourne is creating more pressure on our lifestyles and families,” Mr Davis said in a statement. When asked about possible highrise development near train stations, Mr Davis told The News “there are appropriate areas for moderate developments but that isn’t spilling out right across a whole suburb and
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leaving no areas recognisable as a suburb”. “People particularly living along coastal strips want a quality of life and that is at risk of being diminished by the population pressure and Labor’s decision to rip up the planning protections last year,” he said. Mr Guy was state planning minister in the previous Coalition state government and has been criticised for allowing several high-rise apartment developments in central Melbourne. “You can’t trust this former planning minister who botched residential zones in an effort to shore up his political base in the eastern suburbs while letting it rip in other parts of Melbourne,” Mordialloc Labor MP Tim Richardson said. “In March last year the Andrews Labor government cleaned up these residential zones, making them clearer and locking in protections for suburban backyards. “Our state is growing and the reformed residential zones strike the right balance between protecting what we love while giving all Victorians real housing choices. “After the mess created by the Leader of the Opposition at Fishermans Bend and Ventnor, it’s unbelievable Matthew Guy still wants to talk about planning.”
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